You should be enabling sysfs and friends 2006/3/15, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com>: > > Hi All, > > I've been trying to put together a one off CentOS 4 based distro, and > I ran into some trouble. First off just so you know we've been doing > this with CentOS 3 and with RedHat 9 before that, so the inexperience > is only with the delta between CentOS 3 and CentOS 4 (and RHEL 3 and > RHEL 4 by extension). > > Anyway, the problem is that for some reason /dev/console is not > getting created. We get completely through the installation, in what > looks like a successful manner, but when we reboot at the point init > would come up with see nothing at all, and there it sits. I went > through many contortions including including using bash as init and > then starting init manually with strace turned on. This all lead to > the conclusion that for some reason init was not getting a console. I > happened to look in the dev directory between a normal minimal install > of CentOS 4 and our "minimal install" and noticed there was no > /dev/console. I manually added this and now the system boots fine. > > For now I've added the creation of /dev/console to the end of the > kickstart's %post, which works, but does anyone have any ideas why its > not being created? > > Thanks...james > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060315/6791df87/attachment-0005.html>